New Linux User » interoperability http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinuxuser Linux Tips - Information for Using Linux Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:55:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Open docx files in OpenOffice.org http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinuxuser/open-docx-files-in-openofficeorg/ http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinuxuser/open-docx-files-in-openofficeorg/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:19:11 +0000 Clair Ching http://www.newlinuxuser.com/open-docx-files-in-openofficeorg/ Post from: New Linux User

]]> Have you been finding it a hassle to open docx files from your co-workers and/or clients? Ubuntu Geek helps us with this: Use the ODF Converter!

There’s a .deb package which you could download and install on your Debian-powered machines. Also, there’s an RPM file for SUSE.

Though the Novell RPM file is said to only work with the latest Novell version of OpenOffice.org, you might as well give it a try. The blog post on Ubuntu Tip also gave a way for Slackware users to convert from rpm to a Slackware tgz file:

Use alien to convert it to a Slackware tgz file:

fakeroot alien -ct odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm

Unpack the slackware tgz file:

tar xzf odf-converter-1.0.0.tgz

Copy three files into your OpenOffice.org directories — note that the usr that you’re copying from is a directory that was inside the tgz file.

sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/

sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/

sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/MOOXTypeDetection.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/

Restart OpenOffice.org and start opening those shared docx files ;)
Thanks to Productive Linux for the link to Ubuntu Geek!

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